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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450711603321

Autore

Aliaga-Buchenau Ana-Isabel

Titolo

The "dangerous" potential of reading : readers and the negotiation of power in nineteenth-century narratives / / Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-88348-3

1-135-88349-1

1-138-99059-0

1-280-07612-7

0-203-48608-0

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 187 p

Collana

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Disciplina

813/.309355

Soggetti

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Books and reading in literature

Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century

French fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Books and reading - France - History - 19th century

Comparative literature - American and French

Comparative literature - French and American

Power (Social sciences) in literature

Narration (Rhetoric)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Reading and Power in the Nineteenth Century -- chapter 2 The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of -- Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of / Frederick Douglass -- chapter 3 The Passage to Middle-Class Respectability -- Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick -- chapter 4 The Road to Revolt -- Emile Zola's Germinal -- chapter 5 Women, Reading, and Power -- chapter 6 The Demonic Underneath the Angelic Little Woman: Louisa May -- Louisa May Alcott's Little Women / Alcott's Little Women -- chapter 7 A Little Woman Gone Astray -- Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary.